Process of removing chlorin from raw bromin.



No drawing KONRAD KUBIERSCHKY, OF BRUNSWICK, GERMANY.

. an PROCESS OF REMOVING GI-ILORIN FROM RAW BROMIN, Q,

T all whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, KoNRAn KUBIERSOHKY,

a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of Brunswick, German Empire, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Process of Removing Chlorin from Raw Bromin, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a process of removing chlorin from raw bromin. I My process may be carried outin any suitable form of apparatus. I have shown in the drawing, by way of example, an ap aratus which may be used therefor. Saidrawing is a side elevation part in section, of an apparatus suitable for carrying out my invent1on.

The bromin produced in the German potash industry consists in raw state of bromin whichhas mixed with it more or less chlorin.

, Such raw bromin is placed on the market only in small quantities, while the greater part of it isrefined, that is freed of the chlorin. This removing of the chlorin is obtained by redis-tilling the bromin after the 2-5 addition of a watery solution of bromids. In this way, the chlorin of the raw bromin forms chlorids with the bromids of the solution, so that pure bromin remains which can be separated. by the distillation.

The raw bromin has furthermorebeen refined without" distillation by simply shaking .the raw bromin. together with a solution of bromids. Based on this same principle is a rocess which is used in some plants, namely,

eading the raw bromin immediately after it is produced through a solution of bromid and having it thus free of chlorin. All these processes above mentioned are based on chemically combining the chlorin of the raw bromin in someindirect way.

The present invention. avoids chemical combining of the chlorin and thus obtains direct separation of chlorin from bromin so that the chlorin which is derived can be led back through the process and used for freefurther quantities of bromin. a1 y, the raw bromin may be considered as a mixture of fluid chlorin and bromin. In heating this chlorin and bromin mixture, more chlorin than bromin escapes.

' Simple fractional distillation of raw bro min causes a chlorin bromin mixture to esca e which contains a large percentage of ch orin which decreases as the rocess goes on. (See Muspratt Encyclope to of Technical Chemistry, 4th edition, volume 1,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 23, 1906. Serial No. 323,179.

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Physic- Patented March :1 1908.

1888, column 2009)., Consequen e boiling fluid will also become weaker ln'ichlorin and in the end contain only ure bromin. This simple process has the disadvantage that considerable bromin escapes withthe chlorin which can not be entirely avoided even by adding a dephlegmating substance. By In invention raw bromin Which has been coo ed'is permitted to drip down through 5 a dripping tower where it is met by an ascending vapor rising from the boiler for receiving the purified bromin. Since the bromin Va orizes at a higher temperature than the ch orin, thebromm contained in the ascending vapors when it meets the cooled raw bromin is condensed, thereby giving up its latent heat to the raw bromin which causes therein a rise in temperature sufficient to vaporize the chlorin of the raw bromin, thus the chlorin is driven off and is allowed to escape at the top of the drippingtower, and the bromin runs ofi from the dripping toWer This can be done either in continuous or intermittent process. In the 30 intermittent process, a small quantity of pure bromin is heated in a boiler to its boiling point. The bromin vapors enter and rise in a dripping tower in which the raw bromin drips down. ously formed in the boiler rise in the dri ping tower and as above described, drive t e chlorin out of the raw bromin so that the chlorin mixed with a comparatively small uantity of bromin escalpes upward, While t e purified bromin is col ected in the boiler.

The chlorin vapor boils at a lower temperature than bromin, so that the bromin vapor that comes off the boiler first contains considerable chlorin, and the proportion of 5 chlorin becomes constantly smaller since no more chlorin enters the boiler and finally pure bromin results in the boiler. After a certain quantity of purified bromin has been collected, it passes a cooling coil and is drained and packed in the well known manner.

The boiling point of the bromin in the boiler serves as an indication of its purity, as ure bromin has a higher boiling point than bromin which is mixed with chlorin. Therefore, the boiler should be provided wlth a thermometer of suitable accuracy for the control of the process.

In the continuous process, the boiler underneath the dripping tower is of but moderate dimensions, asthe refined bromin will not be collected in large quantities but after collec The .bromin vapors continu- 85 I '-in which the vapor ascends.

ing there, it will flow off continuously at the same rate as the newly refined bromin enters the boiler from the tower. This latter process may be applied with great advantage in plants Where bromin is also produced in a continuous process as the refining process of the bromin can be directly connected with the producing process.

It may happen that the mixture of chlorin and bromin vapor rising into the upper part of the tower is not pro )erly cooled oil' by the raw bromin entering the tower at the top, and that thus a chlorin vapor which if too rich in bromin will-escape. In this case, it is advisable to provide for a temporary ad ditional cooling of the chlorin and bromin vapor by a suitable cooling device. The bromin from the latter, then drips down together with the raw bromin in the tower.

In the drawing above referred to, 1 is a boiler in which a small quantity of raw bromin is heated to its boiling point in order to vaporize a part of it. The temperature in the boiler is indicated by the thermometer 2 which may be fastened in any suitable place in the pipe 3 through which the vapor may be led to the dripping tower 4 The raw bromin to be purifiedis supplied by the pipe 5 and passes through to a pipe 6 by way of a suitable cooling apparatus such as 7 mounted above the dripping tower 4 and connected with pipe 6 by the flexible tube 10. The raw bromin enters tower 4 through pipe 6 and the temperature may be measured in entering the tower by a thermometer 8 suitably fastened in pipe 6. The

liquid raw bromin in dripping down in tower 4 meets the ascending vapor and is purified as above described.

The uncondensed vapor which is almost pure chlorin, ascends further in the dripping tower to the top thereof where it is dischar ed by discharge pipe 9 for further suita 1e use. The bromin refined in the tower 4 flows through pipe 3 into the boiler 1 where it is kept at the boiling point by means of'the water bath 11, but pure bromin may be drawn off from the boiler 1 by the pipe 12 and led through cooler 13 of well known construction, from which it is discharged through the tube 14 a purified product ready for the market.

\Yhether the continuous or the intermittent proeess be em )loyed, the general principle is the same, that is, the mixed vapors rise in the dripping tower and are met by the descending cold raw bromin whereu )on the purification above described takes place. Therefore 1 do not wish to limit my invention to either of these processes exclusive of the other, and accordingly I claim: L

1. The herein described process of purifying raw bromin, which consists in drip ing liquid raw bromin through ascending )romin vapor whereby the chlorin of the raw bromin is vaporized and the bromin vapor condensed.

2. The herein described process of purifying raw bromin. which consists in dripping liquid raw bromin and allowing same to be received in the boiler, whereby the same is vaporized and leading the ascending vapors upwardly through the dri ping raw bromin whereby the chlorin of the raw bromin is vaporized and the bromin of the vapor condensed.

The herein describeu process of purifying raw bromin, which consists in dripping liquid raw bromin through an ascending bromin vapor whereby the chlorin of the liquid raw bromin is vaporized and the bromin of the vapor condensed, and passing the escaped vaporized chlorin through the condenser whereby condensation of the bromin contained in the escaped chlorin vapor takes place.

4. The herein described process of purifying raw bromin, which consists in fractionally distilling raw bromin and dripping cold raw bromin through the rising vapors therefrom.

KONRAD KUBIERSCHKY.

Witnesses PAUL KRAATZ, M. ScHRADER. 

